Welcome to Decent Exposure : High School, Volume I: magistrate: Slide 2 jubilant: Slide 3 chattel: Slide 4 timbre: Slide 5 meander: Slide 6 resilient: Slide 7 embellish: Slide 8 denounce: Slide 9 mystic: Slide 10 dubious: Slide 11 ruminate: Slide 12 sever: Slide 13 resplendent: Slide 14 discord: Slide 15 invective: Slide 16 wistful: Slide 17 didactic: Slide 18 undulate: Slide 19 guileless: Slide 20 blight: Slide 21 ethereal: Slide 22 ascetic: Slide 23 notorious: Slide 24 chasm: Slide 25 reticent: Slide 26 magistrate: judge Relatives: mag: big, great in size majestic, magnificent, magnitude You told us that when you said you did not care to go before theBefore magistrate, “press charges,” as you it. to work on this the war I to was a magistrate, and put I used kind of problem. A Soldier of the Great TheWar Bourne Supremacy --Mark Helprin --Robert Ludlum His mother was a federal magistrate, his father, a law professor. Outcasts United -- this Warren St. John I have been named magistrate of town. One Hundred Years of Solitude --Gabriel Garcia Marquez Any form of the word “magistrate” will appear once in every 235 pages of text. Animation: 4 (word appear); 5 (sentence appear); 6 (word disappear) 7 (sentence disappear) His mother was a federal magistrate, his father, a law professor. Outcasts United -- Warren St. John jubilant: overjoyed Forms: N: jubilation V: 00 Adj: jubilant Adv: jubilantly syn: elated, ecstatic ant: morose, sullen, depressed, indifferent, apathetic The city was in the midst of a jubilant gala. The Looking Glass Wars --Frank Beddor But although Tom’s ear tingled, his heart was jubilant. I felt their arms around my neck, The with Adventures their the hugs and of Tom the marvelous Sawyer May the halls echo jubilationof our race. --Mark Twain jubilation of reunion. Black Like Me Eldest --John Howard Griffin --Christopher Paolini Any form of the word “jubilant” will appear once in every 2,232 pages of text. chattel: slave; livestock; a burdensome possession On the way we meet the inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows, in perambulators, and on their backs. Quiet on Front You then stood without a Allchattel to the yourWestern name, and I was the --Erich Maria Remarque Yet master thatofintelligent, the house enterprising, in Corn Street. noble-hearted The Mayorman of Casterbridge was a Hardy chattel. Incidents in the Life of a Slave--Thomas Girl She is a valuable--Harriet industrialJacobs possession chattel to the man, or who may profit by her labor; never a luxury—a bill of expense. The Power and the Glory --Grace MacGowan Cooke Any form of the word “chattel” will appear once in every 2,611 pages of text. timbre: one of the properties of sound; often used to describe a tone, loudness, or pitch of voice. Only the timbre of his voice showed his passion; he was as So slow we watch and easy theirasfaces, Pruitt. theirThe hands, Thundering their feet, Herd and listen for truth in --Zane Grey timbre. She stood listening to the alternating timbres and Eye resonances The Bluest of the men’s voices. The Looking Glass War --Toni Morrison The voice had its very own timbre, withBeddor a heavy, weary rasp. --Frank Life of Pi --Yann Martel Any form of the word “timbre” will appear once in every 10, 563 pages of text. meander: wind, wander, travel in an indirect path Forms: N:00; V: meander, meanders, meandered, meandering; Adj: 00; Adv: 00 I watched the currents meander, the lazy ripples that once It awas onebroke of a the meandering in while surface. rows of mossy, green-roofed cottages lines up along a stream bank. For the next few minutes, they chatted as they meandered The Bean Trees among the shelves. True Believer --Barbara Kingsolver --Nicholas Sparks The Secret Life of Bees They watched Hagrid meander tipsily up to the Monk castle. Kidd --Sue HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban --J.K. Rowling Any form of the word “meander” will appear once in every 3,045 pages of text. resilient: the ability to bounce back after a setback syn: hardy ant: fragile Forms: N: resilience V: 00 Adj: resilient Adv: resiliently We were both more resilient than I gave us credit for. It takes Sheawas, special he thought, strength capable, and resilience. strong, and resilient. The Host Immortal in Death But my dad’s a resilient City man,of tough Bones and determined. --Stephanie Meyer --J.D. Robb --Cassandra Clare Lone Survivor --Marcus Luttrell Any form of the word “resilient” will appear once in every 3,359 pages of text. embellish: decorate Forms: N: embellishment,embellishments V: embellish, embellishes, embellished, embellishing Adj: 00 Adv: 00 He began embellishing syn: adorn --a teaspoon of blood became ant: denude Related: bella: beauty a cup; the stain on her white pants grew from a modest spot to a We discussed John’s and myNineteen year abroad, and me carefully Minutes journey to--Jodi sound like the ideal honeymoon. Heembellishing wore a helm the embellished with Picoult gold, silver and rubies and, Rose Red on his fingers, five large rings. --Stephen King When she saw the teacher looking so interested, Brisingr she embellished --Christopher Paolini the story. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn --Betty Smith Any form of the word “embellish” will appear once in every 1,259 pages of text. denounce: publicly reject or accuse Forms: N: denunciation, denunciations V: denounce, denounces, denounced, denouncing Adj: 00 Adv: 00 syn: repudiate ant: praise, laud Related: Mr. Rearden, the law which you are noun: name announce, noun, denouncing is based on the highest pronounce Chris would fixate on his father’s own less-than-sterling principle—the principle of the public good. Martin hastened Terry, declaring that hesilently would resign-behavior manytoyears earlier and would denounce him. Atlas Shrugged They published a scathing denunciation of the population --Ayn Rand would denounce --would expose—Yes! limitation laws. Ender’s Game --Orson Scott Card Into the Wild Arrowsmith --Jon Krakauer --Sinclair Lewis Any form of the word “denounce” will appear once in every 386 pages of text. mystic: related to the heavens or religious beliefs; a person thought to be able to communicate with God, angels, or other spiritual forces Forms: N: mystic; mysticism V: 00 Adj: mystical Adv: mystically syn: divine; otherworldly; Once he surrendered reason, ethereal; She was a practicingcelestial Sufi mystic. he was left at the mercy of… ant: mundane; earthly Red: The Heroic Rescue a body by unaccountable Hemoved hypnotized me with his --Ted mystical Dekkervampire powers. instincts and a soul moved by mystic revelations. Now we’re resorting to Black: The Birth of Evil --Ted Dekker Breaking Down Atlas Shrugged --Stephanie Meyer mystics?--Ayn Rand Any form of the word “mystic” will appear once in every 340 pages of text. dubious: full of doubt; uncertain; unsteady; unlikely; questionable Forms: N: doubt V: doubt, doubts, doubted, doubting Adj: dubiously. dubious Adv: dubiously “Oh come on,” I said syn: skeptical; cynical Twilight ant: --Stephanie certain; cocky;Meyer gullible; inevitable The only dubious ray of hope has come from my sister. Theand Hunger Games She scanned the menu settled dubiously --Suzanne Collins on the stuffed shells supreme. His writing Immortal ability wasin Death dubious to say the least, but he --J.D. Robb considered himself lucky. The Book Thief --Markus Zusak Any form of the word “dubious” will appear once in every 922 pages of text. ruminate: think about something over and over What I know is ruminated, Forms: N: rumination V: ruminate, ruminates, ruminated, plotted,ruminating and set down. Adj: ruminative Adv: 00 syn: contemplate, perseverate, mull Henry V I was afraid I’d ruminate, ant: ignore, forget --WS agonize, rationalize and talk Relatives: ruminant (cud-chewing animal); rumor myself into not going. The Kite-Runner --Khaled Hosseini He remained in a state of empty and peaceful rumination until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. Metamorphosis --Franz Kafka He rested a while in critical rumination. Catch-22 --Joseph Heller Any form of the word “ruminate” will appear once in every 2,617 pages of text. sever: to cut Forms: N: severance V: sever, severs, severed, severing Adj: 00 Adv: 00 The syn: truncate, terminate, amputate severed ropes fell away.ant: extend, unite, splice Angela severed the connection. HP and the Deathly Hollows --J.K. Rowling Brisingr Now Palmgren was gone, and another tie to established society --Christopher Paolini had been severed. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Larsson severing tendons and The bullet had hit him --Stieg in the shoulder, ligaments, shattering bone. The Looking-Glass War --Frank Beddor Any form of the word “sever” will appear once in every 626 pages of text. resplendent : luxuriously decorated Forms: N: resplendence V: 00 Adj: resplendent Adv: resplendently He wore a resplendent syn: opulent, ostentatious, lavish dressing gown and embroidered slippers.ant: modest, spare, austere, sparse Relatives: splendid; splendor The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot Razor creasesChristie on his pants and resplendent --Agatha Drown white shirts were his trademarks. thea sun; she heard She saw the leaves inresplendent He was resplendent new clothes in and greatcoat with the a Diaz --Junot dashing cape his heavy sounds of thrown the city,back faintfrom and sweet, likeshoulders. thousands of distant violins. The Incredible Lightness of Being --Milan Kundera Gone With the Wind Any form of the word “resplendent” will appear once in every 1,864 pages of text. --Margaret Mitchell discord: quarrelsome atmosphere; tension between people He had seen some minor discord and name-calling. We have remained close, however, and have glimpsed islands of Theus. Crystal Shard agreement whilediscord navigating theamong rapids of discord. But then crept --R.A. Salvatore This was the cause of constant Thisthe I discord. Believe HP and Order II of the Phoenix Allison, et. al. Love in --Jay the Time of Cholera --J.K. Rowling --Gabriel Garcia Marquez Forms: N: discord V: 00 Adj: discordant Adv: discordantly syn: dispute, disagreement ant: harmony, accord Any form of the word “discord” will appear once in every 625 pages of text. invective: a scolding with harsh words Forms: N: invective V: 00 Adj: 00 Adv: 00 syn: diatribe, vituperation, tirade ant: praise, adoration, adulation He Then she burst broke intoforth intolerable into sentences invective. composed of invectives HeHeoccasionally began to hate them vehemently, and to assail them with every was divided between the impulse to laugh aloud and the equally joined together invective in a long string. kind of he could think of.scornful invective. unseasonable impulse to burst into Of Human Maggie: A Girl Bondage ofMaintenance the Streets Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Middlemarch --Stephen --Somerset Crane Maugham --Robert Pirsig --George Elliot Any form of the word “invective” will appear once in every 2,300 pages of text. wistful: in a day-dreaming state of mind syn: dreamy, nostalgic Forms: N: wistfulness; V:00; Adj: wistful Adv: wistfully I could see them smiling wistfully at us. Any form of the word “wistful “will appear once in every 533 pages of text. He looked so wistful A Walk to Remember --Nicholas Sparks as he went away, hearing the frolic and evidently having none of his own. And all the while the dog sat and watchedLittle him,Women a certain yearning --Louisa May Alcott wistfulness his eyes, for it looked upon a fire-provider, of the guys out onhim the as football field He thoughtinwistfully and in the the sweet, fire was fresh slowwind, in coming. tossing the ball around To Build a Firebefore --Jack London practice began. The Chocolate Wars --Robert Cormier didactic: teacher-ish, in a condescending way syn: pedantic; professorial Forms: N: didacticism; autodidact V: 00; Adj: didactic Adv: didactically Any form of the word “didactic” will appear once in every 3,784 pages of text. His tone was becoming a little bit didactic, and this both amused and irritated her. Doctor Zhivago --BorisofPasternak Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition the diabolical purposes of cinnabar. One Hundred Years of Solitude Garcia Marquez Monsieur the Principal thinks my--Gabriel thesis aught to be dogmatic The Three Musketeers and didactic. --Alexander Dumas He could think of no possible way he could tell them what they should work toward without falling back into the trap of authoritarian, didactic thinking. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance –Robert M. Pirsig undulate: to move in a slow, waving motion syn: unstable, unpredictable, combative ant: placid, stable, predictable, docile Forms: N: undulation; V: undulate, undulates, undulated, undulating Adj: Adv:00 Below, the surface of the water was an undulating mirror of brightness. The Pearl --John Steinbeck A silver ring fish floated by them, undulating, and closing like an iris, instantly, around food particles, to assimilate them. skin. Chronicles Ripples of cold undulated over Harry’s The Martian Bradbury HPclimbers and the --Ray Deathly Hollows Fighting exhaustion, the two continued up the --J.K. Rowling undulating ridge above. Into Thin Air Any form of the word “undulating will appear once inKrakauer every 1,051 pages of text. --Jon guileless: without trickery syn: sincere, ingenuous, innocent ant: insincere, disingenuous, sly, crafty Forms: N: guile; V: beguile, beguiles, beguiled, beguiling; Adj: 00; Adv: 00 Relatives: gullible, disguise, guise as those of a boy. His eyes were wide and guileless ironclad His look was one of conviction, of guileless yet Airborn --Kenneth Oppel A Thousand Splendid Suns earnestness. --Khaled Hosseini With her smooth face, she looked like a young girl, frail, guileless, and innocent. The Joy Luck Club --Amy Tan Calm, guileless, and sometimes childishly animated, they looked like fat fifty-year-olds pretending to be fourteen. Any form of the word “guileless” will appear once in every 1,399Lightness pages of text. of Being The Unbearable --Kundera Milan Blight: disease, visible marks of decay Forms: N: blight, blights syn: degeneration, V: blight, blights, blighted, affliction blighting Adj: 00 Adv: 00 ant: robustness Five figures wandered slowly over the blighted lands. She says ‘twould break your heart to think what the English did Hitchhiker’s to thethey Galaxy to us, but if they didn’t putAthe the potato, didn’t blight onGuide --Douglass Adams do anything to take it off. This sort of person is a blight on good professionalism. Angela’s Ashes Remains of the--Frank Day McCourt --Kazuo Ishiguro Like a blighted tree, Reich fell to the ground. The Demolished Man --Alfred Bester Any form of the word “blight” will appear once in every 825 pages of text. ethereal: of the air or heavens syn: celestial, insubstantial, airy, otherworldly ant: earthly, earthbound, quotidian, mundane Forms: N: ether; V: 00; Adj: ethereal; Adv: ethereally Relative: Ethernet Mist floated just above the ground , ethereal and ghostlike. A Bend You have to kill them in their physical and in the Road --Nicholas Sparks ethereal forms before they die. Surrounded by a streetlight Cityhalo, of Bones she looked almost ethereal. --Cassandra Clare The Wedding --Nicholas Sparks The wrought-iron fence added a spooky touch to an ethereal Any setting. True Believer form of the word “ethereal will appear once in every 1,941 pages of text. --Nicholas Sparks ascetic: N: a person who is 100% dedicated to religious pursuits; Adj: severely devoted to religion at the sacrifice of worldly matters ant: libertine, hedonist Forms: N: ascetic, ascetics, asceticism V: 00 Any form of the word “ascetic” will appear once in every 1,113 pages of text. A gluttonous ascetic ? Such a contradiction! Ender’sthem Game His suits fitted him as though he had borrowed from a stout z --Orson Scott Card friend, and his face, seldom suggestive of his profession, was now But I am no longer the one I was, I am no ascetic anymore, absorbed in not all so; it could of an ascetic I amatnot a priest anyhave more,been I amthan no Brahmin any more. occult pursuits. In Cold Blood Siddhartha --Truman Capote --Herman Hesse Hester sought not to acquire anything beyond a subsistence, of the plainest and most ascetic The Scarlet Letter simple abundance for her child. --Nathaniel Hawthorne notorious: well-known for a negative quality or behavior Forms: N: notoriety V: 00 Adj: notorious syn: scandalous Adv: notoriously The men were jailed in one of Central Africa’s most notorious prisons. Outcasts United --Warren St. John Chinese officials are notoriously late. The Bourne Supremacy --Robert Ludlum He’s notorious for saying no to everything. Angela’s Ashes --Frank McCourt Secluded five miles up a rutted dirt track, the played-out mine was a notorious party spot. Crank Any form of the word “notorious” will appear once in every 505 pages of text. --Ellen Hopkins chasm: a deep empty space Forms: N: chasm, chasms V: 00; Adj: 00 Adv: 00 syn: abyss, gulf, gorge ant: mountain Cold laughter echoed from the chasm. The Lighting Thief --Rick Riordan But her first problem was getting across the chasm. Uglies --Scott Westerfield There was nothing between us but a dark chasm. October Sky --Homer Hickham A cliff was on their left and a chasm on their right. Any form of the word “chasm” will appear once in every 1,078 pages of text. The Two Towers --J.R.R. Tolkien reticent: reluctant to speak Forms: N: reticence syn: taciturn, diffident V: 00 ant: garrulous, loquacious Adj: reticent Adv: reticently Nassar, reticent by nature, withdrew almost completely. Zeitoun A reticent fellow, he made no reply. --Dave Eggers Howard’s End He took my hand as we walked to --E.M. the river, which surprised me Forster because he was normally reticent to show affection in public. The Poisonwood Bible --Barbara Kingsolver reticent. Pour your heart out to me, Bessie. Don’t be Franny and Zooey --J.D. Salinger Any form of the word “reticent” will appear once in every 1,374 pages of text.